Reddy says Telangana step suicidal, won’t be part of it

With the Congress Working Committee and the UPA coordination committee likely to take a view on Telangana next week, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and other Seemandhra ministers have issued veiled threats to step down from their posts if the state is bifurcated.

During his meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other leaders on Friday, Reddy is learnt to have told them that “creating Telangana is a suicidal step and that it would be difficult for me to preside over any move to bifurcate the state. I will not be a party to any destructive decision”.

The resignation threat by Reddy and ministers from coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema is to safeguard their own political interests.